Example sentences of "i thought of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hugh Stoddart says of it now : ‘ I thought of it as a film set in peacetime about the people who are the cannon fodder in wartime ’ . |
| 2 | Suddenly I thought of Anne and felt impelled to rebel . |
| 3 | I thought of making soup with these , but we 'd lose the delicacy of the flavour . ’ |
| 4 | Remember I thought of having him in Ireland - I wish I had . |
| 5 | I thought of the example of Evan 's life . |
| 6 | I thought of the question as rhetorical , but his reply was ‘ Yes ’ . |
| 7 | I thought of Troy , what we had built her for . |
| 8 | I thought of the place as an imaginary island , a sort of French Never Never Land . |
| 9 | Chemically-induced terror can be dispersed , I 've found , by concentrating on horrors in the real world , so I thought of That 's Life and VAT and Mrs Thatcher , and after a while I began to feel better . |
| 10 | As I crouched down in the trench I thought of the French family just a short distance away from us . |
| 11 | He put it all into practice with The Clash When he got Joe Strummer into The Clash he asked me what I thought of him . |
| 12 | After coming across a hefty pile of best magazines prior to moving house earlier this year , I thought of a novel idea . |
| 13 | I du n no why I thought of that — I just did . |
| 14 | I thought of it as just being a friend . |
| 15 | I thought of it at one ti me , but I knew I 'd make a mess of it . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ I thought of it ? ’ |
| 17 | I thought of us as the little princes in the Tower , and of the city of London as the cruel torturer Hubert who at any moment might come and put out our poetic eyes . |
| 18 | I thought of the refugees whose turmoil was invading the whole of Europe . |
| 19 | Last night , while sitting doing my ration of embroidery , I thought of what we had been talking about — the paying guest , and have come to the conclusion that you ought not to undertake such a responsibility as you have had such a difficult time in one way and another with sickness and trouble . |
| 20 | I thought of Celia . |
| 21 | I thought of Aunt Louise as I had seen her last , sitting upright in her plastic-covered armchair . |
| 22 | She could not have been very old when I first knew her , but I thought of her as old , partly because her hair was pure white . |
| 23 | I thought of hypothetical dangers — murderers , rapists ; and I have no doubt that such are abroad at night in the most unlikely of places at the most unlikely of times . |
| 24 | ‘ At fourteen I thought of myself as having potential — the usual things : getting a boyfriend , going out with my friends — then after the loss of my leg , all that was shattered . |
| 25 | Sprawled on a chair in the lounge , trying to sleep , I thought of Ireland and its vanished Sovereignty . |
| 26 | I thought of the shoppers ’ day trips to Northern Ireland in search of cheap goods , and tried enumerating the benefits Ireland might receive from a Reunion with the rest of Britain . |
| 27 | I thought of how I must seem to them , the people I 'd grown to know . |
| 28 | I thought of Angela Brickell 's death and of the attacks on Harry and me and it seemed that all three had had one purpose , which was to keep things as they were . |
| 29 | Even with his handiwork through me , I thought of the sadness inevitably awaiting the others ; yet I would have to pursue him , for someone who had three times seen murder as a solution to problems could n't be trusted never to try it again . |
| 30 | I thought of Fringe and the Downs and wondered if I would ever ride in a race , and I thought of Ronnie Curzon and publishers and American rights and of Erica Upton 's reviews and it all seemed as distant as Ursa Major but not one whit as essential to my continued existence . |